Whoever told you this car had a BMW engine was telling you prokies. It features Rovers own L series diesel engine, not the BMW engine as found in the Rover 75 and MG ZT.

As you obv don't know what your selling Im not interested but just thought I would let you know that piece of info. Research it yourself if you wish.

Good luck with the sale.

Kris.

I then get this response:

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Hi Kris,
Obviously you don't know what you are talking about as the engine in the rover 25 is a BMW Engine, I should know as I am a mechanic and also my father owns a BMW dealership, so do your research before you start telling people they don't know what they are talking about, and if your not interested why bother wasting my time and yours.

So a mechanic and a BMW dealership don't even know what engine this is. LOL. So I then sent this:

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Trust me mate, you have been misinformed on this. I do know what Im talking about, I've owned alot of Rovers in my time to know what engine it has. I'm also a member of the mg-rover internet forums and we hear this sorta stuff all the time. If your dad owns a BMW garage then he should know what kind of engine it has...Rovers L series unit as found in the 200, 400, 600, 25, 45, ZR and ZS. Only the Rover 75 and the MG ZT got the BMW diesel engine. I'm not wasting your time, I was just pointing out to you that you have the information wrong and therefore potentially selling someone a car under false pretences.

Your first email to him was a bit harsh (about selling what he doesn't know anything about), but yes he has made it obvious with his own wording that he's retarded.

Oh well! He isn't the first, won't be the last. I've got to be honest, it's nice for me to drive something a supposdely 'informed' BMW dealership tries to call it's own. Okay, it's all in the mind, but hey!

At the end of the day, he's simply confused the rover L series with the 2.0 CDT engine used in the rover 75's, which are BMW.

My neighbours were very interested in buying my old ZR when it was up for sale, when I told them it had pretty much the same engine as their 620Sdi, the conversation went something like this:

Neighbour "Oh that's good, the engine on the missus' 600 has never missed a beat in 5 years, great engines those Honda lumps"

Me "Oh I see, actually it's a Rover engine, but a good engine though"

Neighbour "Are you sure etc."

Me "Yes, it was some of the petrol engines that were Honda in the 600"

Neighbour made some small talk, still probably didn't believe me, but was actually quite worried that it was not a Rover engine, even though it had been faultless, and they were looking for a new car

Me (thinking in my head) "some people!"

Bloody morons, I know which engine I would trust to cost less to run over the years, it's the L series, not the BMW M47 engine with it's in tank/under bonnet fuel pumps, occasional cam/crank sensor and injector faults, etc.

Yeah gets my goat to be honest, I imagine if the neighbours knew it was a Rover engine all along they wouldn't have so much praise for it.

Honda engines generally great for reliability, yes, but the L series is very good as well, only small faults seem to happen regularly, and not expensive ones, the occasional fuel pump for tractor syndrome I suppose.

Surprisingly there aren't too many failures due to the oil cooler pipes corroding, on both my ZR and ZS these were in a poor state when I bought them and needed rustproofing PDQ to avoid future failure.

I still get it with the 260! - "oh thats the good old 3.5litre Rover V8 isnt it?"

I've come across that one too actually. You ever wondered what it would have been like if they DID decide to use the (much lighter) rover V8? Probably the 5 litre hotwire version that TVR utilised. It's very long in the tooth i guess, but it would have been interesting to see another rover v8 rear wheel drive cruiser

I've just got an email back from him, he says it has got a BMW engine, he says he fitted it himself! Anybody near Belfast fancy going as a prospective buyer and taking a butchers? Even if it was true which I very much doubt it is because it would be a monster of a project to do, insuring it would be a big issue.

When I was looking for Streetwises there was a dealer with one for sale that had in big bold writing on the advert "BMW DIESEL ENGINE".

I ignored it, as loads of people try to milk Rover's association with BMW all those years ago when trying to sell one, and called him up.

All went well, sounded like a good car tbh, untill I asked about the service history. It was on 64,000 miles so asked if it had had the cambelt done, to which his response was "nah its a BMW engine, don't need it".

My reply was something like "surely the cambelt must need changing at some point, they're not invincible".

"chain timing mate, all the BMW diesels are, don't worry about any of that cambelt stuff with this".

I then continued to lecture him on how its an L series blah blah blah 75/ZT had the bmw engine blah blah blah.

I've just got an email back from him, he says it has got a BMW engine, he says he fitted it himself! Anybody near Belfast fancy going as a prospective buyer and taking a butchers? Even if it was true which I very much doubt it is because it would be a monster of a project to do, insuring it would be a big issue.

If he has done that then two things really worry me about the car. Firstly he states in the add 'it's the rover with a bmw engine' and not 'Rover 25 with BMW engine conversion' and secondly why the hell did he need to change an L series engine which only had 50,000 miles on it at most (assuming he's only just done the conversion) ??????